Ins and Outs October 5th, 2009 Medgadget Editors News Future of HIV vaccine unclear… [Nature] Medical-Device Makers Push for Cuts … [WSJ] Doctors Fight Penalty on Heavy Test Use … [WSJ] Cancer jab girl ‘died of tumour’… [BBC News] Strange Bedfellows: Rival Medical Firms Launch Joint Stent Study… [WSJ] Ageing populations: the challenges ahead… [Lancet] New Pharma Guidelines: No Ghostwriting, More Public Info… [WSJ] Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson Announce Settlement of Patent Disputes… [Boston Scientific] Zoll, Philips Healthcare land federal defibrillator contracts… [MassDevice] FDA Approves Additional Use for IUD Mirena to Treat Heavy Menstrual Bleeding in IUD Users… [FDA] Cells in developing tissue consider their signaling exposure history to determine location… [Caltech] Scientists decipher missing piece of first-responder DNA repair machine… [Berkeley Lab] Cholesterol necessary for brain development… [Karolinska Institutet] Drug That Crosses Blood-Brain Barrier Reduces Formation of Brain Metastases in Mice… [NIH] Frozen Assets: Researchers Turn to Unique Resource for Clues to Norovirus Evolution… [NIH] Mechanisms of Polycomb gene silencing: knowns and unknowns … [Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology] Understanding a cell’s split personality aids synthetic circuits… [Duke] Surgeons offer eyesight tailored to an individual’s life and career… [Times of London]